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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] Net device error logging (revised)
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On Fri, 23 May 2003 23:21:24 PDT, Jim Keniston said:

> - With Steve Hemminger's creation of the "net" device class a few days
> ago, the network device's interface name is now sufficient to find the
> information about the underlying device in sysfs (even without running
> ethtool). So these macros no longer log the device's driver name and
> bus ID.

Is something *else* logging the driver name and bus ID?

Just because an interface is called 'eth2' when the message is logged
doesn't mean it's still eth2 when you actually *read* the message.
And no, you *can't* rely on finding the "renaming bus-ID to ethN" message
in the logs - if the system is unstable the last bit of local logging may
go bye-bye if not synced, and messages about network hardware problems are
*very* prone to not making it to the syslog server (I wonder why? ;).

Been there, done that, it's not fun. Almost swapped out the wrong eth1
a *second* time before realizing what was really going on...
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